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Ballroom dancing: the international championships [videorecording]

Title
Ballroom dancing: the international championships [videorecording]
Publication
c1991.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Burns, Donnie
  • Fairweather, Gaynor
  • Hilton, Marcus
  • Hilton, Karen
Description
1 videocassette. 58 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Excerpts from the Grand Prix Ostrava 91, an exhibition ballroom dancing competition. In addition to the final rounds of the Latin and modern divisions, the recording includes demonstrations by the world champion teams of Donnie Burns and Gaynor Fairweather (Latin) and Marcus Hilton and Karen Hilton (modern), and ensemble dance numbers by Czech companies.
Subjects
Note
  • Recorded in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in 1991. Co-produced by Unitrading Ostrava, Ltd.; ITS Productions, New York; and Czechoslovak Television Ostrava. Producers: Ljuba Paskova and Jan Hapala. Executive producer: Vaclav Klecka. Director: Jaroslav Gajda. Director of photography: Jan Plesnik. Home video version: executive producer: Bob Karcy; editors: Bob Karcy and Merav Ozeri. Distributed as a videotape by V.I.E.W. Video, New York.
Contents
CONTENTS: Part I: Latin. World champion demonstration (music: "You're for me"), perf. by Burns and Fairweather. -- Latin competition finals, perf. by the teams of Neale Byrnes and Lesley Thom, Ian Waite and Melanie Walker, Mark Lunn and Karen Hardy, Louis van Amstel and Julie Fryer, Paul Killick and Inga Haas, and Goren Nordin and Nicole Branshaw. The dances performed are the samba, cha-cha, rumba, pasodoble, and jive. -- World champion demonstration (music: "Quieren bailar," "Me voy," "Buona sera, signorina," and "Pasodoble"), perf. by Burns and Fairweather. -- Ensemble dance, perf. by D. C. [Dance club?] Inter Apollo Bratislava. -- Part II: Modern. World champion demonstration (music: "Passing strangers"), perf. by Marcus Hilton and Karen Hilton. -- Modern competition finals, perf. by the teams of Alan Doucet and Anik Jolicoeur, Philip Banyer and Michel[le?] Green, Jan Zwyssen and Mirjam Zwyssen, Marti Stevens and Dorothe Stevens, Alexander Melnikov and Irina Solomatina, and Paul Huston and Loraine Haigh. The dances performed are the waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slowfox [slow foxtrot], and quickstep. -- World champion demonstration (music: "Lullaby of the leaves," "It don't mean a thing"), perf. by Marcus Hilton and Karen Hilton. -- Le jazz hot, ensemble dance perf. by D. C. [Dance club?] Elan Unitrading Ostrava.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-1789
ISBN
0803012101
OCLC
  • 80654968
  • NYPY946065934-F
Title
Ballroom dancing: the international championships [videorecording]
Imprint
c1991.
Local Subject
Exhibition ballroom dancing -- Competitions.
Exhibition ballroom dancing -- 1950-
Dance -- Competitions -- Czechoslovakia.
Television. Ballroom dancing: the international championships.
Dance companies -- Czechoslovakia.
Added Author
Burns, Donnie, dancer.
Fairweather, Gaynor, dancer.
Hilton, Marcus, dancer.
Hilton, Karen, dancer.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-1789
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